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CUFF HOLDER.

Patented June 16, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTOPHER G. SHELBY, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,404, dated June 16, 1885.

Application filed April 7, 1885.

.Z'o on whom it may concern.-

Be. it known that I, CHRISTOPHER O. SHEL- BY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cuff-Holders and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to'the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the figures and letters of reference marked thereon.

Heretofore cuff holders or adjusters have been constructed of a piece of metal witha clasp at each end adapted to hold the cuii rigidly to the shirt-sleeve of the wearer; but this form is objectionable for scveralreasons, and it is therefore the object of my invention to provide an improved cuii' holder or adjuster that will hold the cuff securely and at the same time will permit of a limited movement of it; and the invention consists in certain novel details of construction which I will now proceed to describe.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View showing the application of my improved cuft holder. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the device.

Similar letters of reference in the several parts indicate like parts.

A A represent two metal clasps, consisting of the jaws a I), pivoted together and having the spring 0 rorkeepingthcjaws closed. Each of the jaws bof the clasp are provided with a portion, d, formed with it, or consisting of a separate piece of metal attached to said jaw by soldering or otherwise.

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represents a spiral spring, preferably flattened, as shown, and the portions (1 of the clasps are encircled by said spring and are secured thereto at opposite ends, by being turned over one or more coils of the spring, thus forming a spring-connection between the clasps, so that when the clasps are separated the spring will be compressed, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, and when they are re leased the springwill draw the clasps together, as shown in full lines in said figure.

The operation of the device will be evident from an inspection of Fig. 1.

One of the clasps is adapted to be connected to the wearers shirt-sleeve and the other to the cuff, forming an elastic though perfectly secure connection between them.

This cuitholder consists of few parts, can be manufactured very cheaply, and possesses advantages over the old rigid connection which will be evident upon inspection.

I claim as my invention As an improved article of manufacture, the herein-described cuff-holder, consisting of the spiral spring and the two clasps, each clasp having the rear portion of one of its jaws prolonged to form a shank which extends through the spring in opposite directions and connected to it at one endby being bent around one or more of the coils of the same, substantially as described.

CHRISTOPHER O. SHELBY.

IVitnesses:

S. VAN ZANDT, WM. 0. SHELBY. 

